You've lost me again. Free will is given to us. Through the use of free will we give ourselves something which was not given to us, we create for ours...
I meant the latter, the author of that language. It doesn't matter that your dialect is not one of the excluded ones. Your attitude towards the exclus...
Agreed, and this is how we "use" narrative for various purposes, through emphasis, exaggeration, and outright lies. A narrative can never be "true" in...
In that case, "one's own reasons" would not actually be one's own reasons, but simply the reasons of the puppet master, as in my explanation. I agree,...
I think there are many lessons to be learned from fiction, and in that way there is truth in fiction. But I think no one is capable of reading fiction...
That's a good point, but you need to be careful with semantics. If the reasons are external, and preprogrammed, it would be incorrect to call them "on...
Nice, finally some activity in the Shoutbox. I was thinking I might have to go read some short stories for my daily dose of entertainment. But I hate ...
How could it be "soundly reasonable" that the reason for your existence is your reasons? The intent for a thing is prior in time to the existence of t...
[ Well I don't see the point then. Consciousness is defined by the thinking activity of the being. If each person continues to have one's own individu...
The main reason you gave for dislike of Nynorsk was the way that the author treated certain dialects. So I still believe there is an issue of "dialect...
I'm not as forgiving as Wayfarer on this issue. The simple answer is no. No proposition cannot be said to "hold" independently of minds. Each proposit...
A frame of reference is clearly an artificial creation. From Wikipedia: "In physics and astronomy, a frame of reference (or reference frame) is an abs...
Judging by your reaction, I think I see part of the reason for the degree of dialectical diversity in Norway. When individual people are fiercely inde...
I think TPF is all about entertainment, not philosophy. That's why Shoutbox is #1, and Short stories is #2. Don't ask me why Site Guidelines is #3, be...
The issue, as I described, is that time without physical change is logically possible, and there is no evidence to suggest otherwise. How could there ...
Hanover said something about being self-aware of one's own insensitivity, That implies that what was described as being sensitive, but controlled sens...
Here's my interpretation: The observant are sensitive, with responses controlled, making them appear insensitive. Wait, they actually are insensitive....
Why jump to conclusion without reading the post? Didn't schopy actually say: I think what schopenhaur1 implies, rather than that Trump himself is fasc...
I think that this is a false proposition. The subject has operative control over the entire space which constitutes the body, and the consciousness as...
I was replying to the following statement you made: "I take the 'it only exists in the mind' line anyway,". So if time only exists in the mind, how co...
You don't see how the premise "time only exists in the mind" leads to the conclusion that time could not have been passing before there was minds? I d...
You ought to see that if the passage of time was something that only exists in the mind, and that since this is what defines "the present", then there...
This is what I answer with "the passage of time". That has been stipulated to be the requirement for two contradictory states, that they are at a diff...
Yes, it is a generalization, that it is unhelpful is regretful. The specifics of what "A" and "B" signify has not been stated, they simply stand for t...
I think most theologians would argue that God does decide what is good. They clearly claim that human actions are good only insofar as they are consis...
That's highly illogical captain. Thousands of other writings whose writers were far more significant then Plato were destroyed, thus allowing Plato, a...
The statement you quoted said, "or at the very least it is the order, event A is prior to event B". Does that not already answer your question about c...
Hmm, I see things in the opposite way. Since God has the most knowledge possible, if there is supposed to be something beyond God which determines "go...
I don't think so. Time is the rate at which state A changes to state B, or at the very least it is the order, state A is prior to state. It is a featu...
From my perspective, time is related to change. It's just that we cannot say that time is change because we understand time as the means by which we r...
Ever read Plato's Euthyphro? The question would be whether an act is good because it is what God chooses, or whether God chooses it because it is good...
You misunderstand. Plato already is the foundation, be it bad or good. I think the length of time sustained is evidence that the foundation was pretty...
I think there are some tools available to make this easy for you. Don't ask me how to use them, I've just seen them used. Technology is nothing but ma...
Rest frames are artificial creations. Scientists produce them as required, so they will have some degree of arbitrariness. However, they do demonstrat...
Ok I see the problem clearly now. From God's perspective, to do A is necessary, needed as good, and God cannot be wrong. From our perspective. we do n...
What I'm talking about is when events follow each other in time, and the same types are observed to do so consistently, then through inductive reasoni...
The intention to do A is not necessary, it is a freely made choice. We've been through this already. God's will, is a necessary part of God, but the p...
Language is fundamentally ambiguous. And, it is a mistake to proceed from the ambiguities of today in an attempt to understand the ambiguities of anci...
OK, by your definition of "contingent", from God's perspective, the thing He creates is contingent. But God's Will, as an essential property of God is...
The thought experiment is unhelpful, and that's the point I'm making. We don't know enough about time to answer the question. So the answer simply dep...
I don't see the need for these two existents. The change relative to each other requires the passing of time, so it is evidence to an observer that ti...
In theology, in the sense of "contingent being", contingent means requiring causation. Any existent which is dependent on something else, as cause for...
I think yours is an inadequate definition of time because "registered change" implies observation, judgement. This would mean that prior to living bei...
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